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  • 01 May 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Bad At Your Job? Maybe It's the Job’s Fault

out that the sales and marketing folks were overtaxed, while the demands were too soft on software engineers. “The tool gave us insight for each job on how to improve it,” he says. Why that job is so hard Prior to developing the online... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • October, 2022
  • Article

The Economic Dynamics of Competing Power Generation Sources

By: Gunther Glenk and Stefan Reichelstein
Competing power generation sources have experienced considerable shifts in both their revenue potential and their costs in recent years. Here we introduce the concept of Levelized Profit Margins (LPM) to capture the changing unit economics of both intermittent and... View Details
Keywords: Renewable Energy; Intermittant; Cost Accounting; Profitability Analysis; Learning-by-doing; Cannibalization Effect; Energy; Environmental Management; Investment; Operations; Technological Innovation; Energy Industry; Utilities Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Europe; North America; South America; Africa; Asia
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  • 01 Feb 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The ‘Luxury Prime’: How Luxury Changes People

make self-serving decisions and ignoring the plight of others. To date, more than a year since the crisis started, despite much public outrage and threats to more strongly regulate the financial industry, there do not seem to be any... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 22 Jan 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 22

public research organizations, such as universities and hospitals, and private firms are an established policy tool around the world for the delivery of social or public services, and their use as a tool to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January 2017
  • Case

Danaher Corporation, 2007–2017

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
On July 2, 2016, Danaher Corporation completed the spinoff of Fortive Corporation. The previous day, Danaher’s stock price had reached an all-time high. In 2015, Danaher had decided to split off its test and measurement, fuel and fleet management, and automation... View Details
Keywords: Danaher; Fortive; Larry Culp; Beckman Coulter; Pall; Life Sciences; Diagnostics; Environmental Operations; Water Management; Dental; Testing; Measurement; Fuel; Fleet Management; Automation; Toolmaking; Tools; Disease Management; Continuous Improvement; Toyota Production System; Divestiture; Spinoffs; Spin-off; Networks; Acquisition; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Conglomerates; Business Divisions; Business Subsidiaries; Business Units; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Joint Ventures; Restructuring; Engineering; Chemicals; Construction; Machinery and Machining; Profit; Revenue; Globalized Firms and Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Medical Specialties; Business History; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Management Practices and Processes; Management Succession; Management Systems; Resource Allocation; Market Entry and Exit; Measurement and Metrics; Logistics; Business Processes; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Science; Genetics; Natural Environment; Wastes and Waste Processing; Science-Based Business; Opportunities; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Consolidation; Corporate Strategy; Diversification; Expansion; Technology; Software; Technology Networks; Technology Platform; Value; Valuation; Aerospace Industry; Auto Industry; Biotechnology Industry; Chemical Industry; Computer Industry; Construction Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Distribution Industry; Electronics Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Health Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Information Technology Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Retail Industry; Rubber Industry; Semiconductor Industry; Shipping Industry; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Utilities Industry; United States; District of Columbia
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  • 03 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

brands in emerging markets across the world. In addition to Zalora in Southeast Asia, GFG owned Dafiti in South America, Namshi in the Middle East, Jabong in South Asia, Lamoda in Eastern Europe, and The Iconic in Australia. GFG’s... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 May 2021
  • HBS Case

How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

Despite widespread investment in entrepreneurship in cities across America, venture capital-funded startups still tend to be founded by white men in Silicon Valley. In contrast, businesses led by women are 63 percent less likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
  • Web

Providers - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Health Care Health Care Value-Based Health Care Health Care Courses Fast Facts Value-Based Health Care Value-Based Health Care Cases & Teaching Notes Key Concepts Key Stakeholders Publications Team Work With Us Presentations Key... View Details
  • Web

2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

economic research has examined the influence of policy movements on bank lending behavior, capital flows, and market responses in the public sector, the private equity industry—despite its substantial size... View Details
  • Web

Entrepreneurial Support - Business & Environment

overcome them in order to drive impact at scale. For the full listing, click here . HBS EC Course - Public Entrepreneurship - Mitchell Weiss This course is designed for students who may found, join, or fund private startup companies that... View Details
  • 18 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 18

results show that the opportunity to avoid being submitted to regulation produces more unethical conduct than situations in which regulation is either exogenously imposed or entirely absent. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/13-029.pdf View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 28

marketing organization, selling 46 products, including pouched milk, cheese, butter, ice cream, and infant food through a million retailers across the country, and is the market leader in almost all the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 11, 2009

from 3% to 15% as a fraction of government budget without negatively affecting publication quality and quantity. This follows incentive policy change and leadership change at labs, an event whose timing is plausibly exogenous being... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Nov 2020
  • Research & Ideas

COVID Was Supposed to Increase Bankruptcies. Instead, They've Gone Down.

very surprising to a lot of people. And I think it raises a lot of questions,” says Kluender, who studies the causes of financial distress among American households and how government, private insurance, and credit markets should function... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 11 Apr 2023
  • Blog Post

BTG Bioliquids: Creating Fast Pyrolysis Bio-Oil from Biomass Residue Streams

Regulation plays a crucial role to drive adoption: BTG Bioliquids’ two primary markets (Europe and North America) have policies and regulations in place that necessitate the production and adoption of cleaner fuel sources. This is... View Details
  • 30 Jun 2023
  • Blog Post

Finding Pride

at Stanford, would evolve over time; its membership and public presence did, too. Today the PRIDE group is an association of 190 lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ+) students and partners. It serves as a... View Details
  • 23 Aug 2006
  • Op-Ed

The Real Wal-Mart Effect

imposes on society by securing subsidies, driving employees toward public welfare systems, creating urban sprawl, and destroying jobs in competing operations. Thus, juxtaposing these customer savings against the estimate cited by Fishman... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Ken A. Mark; Retail
  • 05 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 5

functions that are thrust to the center of concern during such crisis events. Pursuing Public Value: Frameworks for Strategic Analysis and Action Authors:Leonard, Herman B., and Mark H. Moore Publication:Ports in a Storm: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Mar 2018
  • What Do You Think?

What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?

Facebook.” Dyl would “allow users to ‘upgrade’ to a premium paid version where amongst other features (advanced posting abilities, greater post visibility, etc.), ads are not shown and therefore private data is not shared.” Liel noted that, “In developed View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Information Technology
  • 30 Jun 2021
  • In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details
Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland